Chittagong Airport

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Shah Amanat International Airport
শাহ আমানত আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর
Chittagong Airport
Airport building in Chittagong
Characteristics
ICAO code VGEG
IATA code CGP
Coordinates

22 ° 15 '25 "  N , 91 ° 49' 20"  E Coordinates: 22 ° 15 '25 "  N , 91 ° 49' 20"  E
Height above MSL 4 m (13  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km south of Chittagong
Basic data
opening 1941 (as a military airport)
operator Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh
Terminals 2 (1 passenger, 1 cargo)
Passengers 950,000 (2010/11)
Air freight 4480 t (2011/12)
Start-and runway
05/23 2949 m × 45 m asphalt concrete



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The Chittagong airport (engl. Shah Amanat International Airport , Bengali শাহ আমানত আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর , IATA code CGP ; ICAO code VGEG ) is an international airport in Chittagong , the second largest city of Bangladesh .

History and Development

Chittagong Airport was opened in 1941 as a military airport in what was then British India and was of great strategic importance as an Allied air base during the Japanese occupation of Burma in 1942–1945. After Bangladesh gained independence in 1972, the airport became one of the country's national airports. Between March 12, 1998 and December 11, 2000, the Chittagong Airport Development Project carried out a major expansion for the equivalent of US $ 51.57 million, after which the maximum capacity was 6 million passengers and 5700 tons of cargo. Today the airport is the second largest in Bangladesh, but in terms of passenger and freight volume, it is significantly smaller than Dhaka airport .

The airport has a passenger terminal (handling separate for domestic and international flights) and a freight terminal, as well as a runway with asphalt-concrete pavement and dimensions 2940 × 45 meters. This means that Boeing 747-400 aircraft can fly to the airport. In the period 2011–12, 950,000 passengers used the airport and 4,480 tons of cargo were loaded.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger airlines

There are domestic flights to Dhaka and international flights to the Arab Gulf states. There are also flights to Kolkata in West Bengal ( India ) and Bangkok ( Thailand ).

Regent Airways De Havilland DHC-8-300 at the airport (2011)
A DHC-8–300 of the former GMG Airlines at the airport (2009)

Cargo airlines

There are cargo flights in the Arab Gulf states, to Dhaka and to southern China.

See also

Web links

Commons : Shah Amanat International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chittagong Airport Development Project, CADP. Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh, 2006, accessed January 13, 2015 .
  2. ^ Civil Aviation Authority Bangladesh, Aerodrome information Shah Amanat International Airport, Chittagong. (No longer available online.) 2006, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.caab.gov.bd
  3. ↑ 6.09 PASSENGER MOVEMENT BY AIRPORTS / AERODROMES, 6.10 FREIGHT / MAILS LOADED AND UNLOADED BY AIRPORTS / AERODROMES. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Director General, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), Ministry of Planning, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, archived from the original on January 13, 2016 ; accessed on January 13, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 203.112.218.66
  4. ^ Shah Amanat Airport. shahamanat.com, accessed January 14, 2016 .